By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Look out below: Cuts underway as advertising tumble accelerates
Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review, 2016/11/02

It was not so long ago I heard people declaring that paper newspapers would endure and that large publications like, say, the Wall Street Journal, were too entrenched to imagine being impacted by the internet. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Deep Learning is Revolutionary
Oliver Cameron, Medium, 2016/11/03

Yes, this article is pretty superficial (and a "ten reasons" listicle) but if you haven't been looking at some of the things neural networks are doing you may want to take a look. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 3 Types of College Friendships That Matter For Student Success
Anya Kamenetz, NPR | Mind/Shift, 2016/11/03

Interesting summary of a new book from by Janice McCabe, a researcher at Dartmouth College, on the different types of networks students form in college or university. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Happy Beta Release Day, Omeka S!!
Sharon Leon, Omeka, 2016/11/03
Via Digital Humanities Now, "Omeka S is the next-generation, open source web-publishing platform that is fully integrated into the scholarly communications ecosystem and designed to serve the needs of medium to large institutional users who wish to launch, monitor, and upgrade many sites from a single installation." The source (PHP and Javascript) is available on GitHub. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy
Christine L. Borgman, Peter T. Darch, Ashley E. Sands, Milena S. Golshan, ArXiv.org e-Print archive, 2016/11/07

Yes, it's a specialized case: "Research reported here draws upon a long-term study of scientific data practices to ask questions about the durability and fragility of infrastructures for data in astronomy." But from what I observe these trends exist in every discipline (and most fare worse than astronomy). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
David Rock, Heidi Grant Halvorson, Harvard Business Review, 2016/11/07

This article cites a couple studies arguing that ethnic, racial and gender diversity increases returns and growth in corporations. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Planning for educational change: what is education for?
Dave Cormier, Dave's Educational Blog, 2016/11/07

We can't, of course, stop having this conversation. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teaching Using Adaptive Learning
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, 2016/11/07

I can't watch these at the moment but I can't just pass them by. So here's a link, for my own reference. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Theories of learning – epistemology of connectivism
Stephen Downes, Nov 07, 2016, Regional Forum on ICTs in Higher Education of the Arab States, Beirut, Lebanon

Presentation of major branches of epistemology, placing connectivism into this content, and then describing learning theories in this framework. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Not Everyone’s Hero
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/11/11
Short article mostly intended to expose and denounce Course Hero, an online learning platform that serves essentially as a homework and assignment help site. It focuses on unreliable assignments authored by users in Kenya, "contract cheating under the guise of student support," and of course accusations of copyright violations after tests and assignments were found posted on the site. More...